[CLUE-Tech] Alpha Install

[Jef Barnhart]

What I ended up doing is partioning the drive like this.

sda1 - ext2 / 	sda2 - FAT16
sdb1 - ext2 /usr

Did the install rebooted with the xl.img disk. Pointed MILO to sda1

MILO> boot sda1:/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1

This got the new install booted. Then did mkdosfs on /dev/sda2. 
Copied the contents of the boot disk to sda2.

Went into the bios and told it to boot from disk(0) partition (1) linload.exe
Added the the line root=/dev/sda1 to the OSBOOTOPTIONS line

Rebooted and it worked. 

Yea I did not do the fancy bios upgrade. I just wanted to get linux on the machine just to see that I could do it. Maybe later on I will update the bios to the SRM console. 

Jef

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:17:08 -0700
Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at attbi.com> wrote:

> On 12-13 19:44, Jef Barnhart wrote:
> > This is how I was able to get Red Hat to install on the machine that I
> > have.
> > 
> > This machine is an AlphaStation 255 with the AlphaBios 5.68
> > I am using Red Hat 7.1 for Alpha
> 
> <deletia>
> 
> > At this point you should be installing Red Hat. This is as far as I have
> > gotten. I had it installed but could not get it to reboot. As soon as I
> > have a sollution I will post it.
> > 
> > Jef
> 
> Just wondering if you ever got this figured out...I opted for the SRM way of
> doing things, but I guess I'm curious about the AlphaBIOS method.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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